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Atlanta Magazine
60 Voices: Sam Massell and Andre Dickens on city government Solving problems with conference calls, not confrontation? That remains a goal today.
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During his term as Atlanta mayor from 1970 to 1974, the city’s first Jewish mayor,
Sam Massell, oversaw the campaign to create MARTA; began construction of the Omni, the city’s first enclosed sports coliseum; increased contracting opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses; and appointed the first woman member of the Atlanta City Council. After losing reelection to Maynard Jackson, the city’s first Black mayor, the real-estate executive led the Buckhead Coalition, a business group, until 2019. Now 93, Massell lives in Buckhead with his wife, Sandra.